Yr 7 — I have just read through your blogs and am very dissappointed  !! Some of you need to catch up and get your act together or I will need to send home letters about non-completion of work !!!
Please ensure your blogs contain the following posts (at a minimum):
August
1) Choose a topic from the topic list and write at least 200 or more words on it !!! (try a style of writing you haven’t looked at yet)
June/July
1) A review of the Matinee Performance — who, what, when, where, how why –what did you see, what did you learn, what did you think, what confused you etc….
2) International Day — Newspaper Report — what was it, what  happened, what was good (or not so good) about it, what activities were there, who was involved etc….. 150-200 words.
April/May
1)      What’s been happening in the news that has interested you, excited or concerned you, upset or delighted you, where have you heard it reported, what were the facts, the problem, the result, how did you feel, what did you think, were you inspired to do something??????
Write about it.
Use the WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW, WHY principle for your writing.
Refer to news articles like http://www.smh.com.au/  or http://www.news.com.au/ . for your ideas OR (Gasp ! Horror !) – check out the print copies in the library.
2)    Write a creative account of the Speech assessment task process from the time you heard that the had to write a speech to the moment before during and after the speech
3)    Publish the speech you wrote for class earlier in term 1/2.

March
1) It’s not easy being Green
2) First Day of School
3) St Patrick’s Day

(note: these have disappeared from the site so I suggest you have a look at your other classmates and 8 Red for ideas and confirmation of the tasks)

STUDENTS NOT UP TO DATE BY THE START OF WEEK 9 WILL HAVE LETTERS SENT HOME !!